Artists

Abiy Eshete

Biography My name is Abiy Eshete, I am 37 years old and I live in Addis Ababa. I was born in the Oromiya region of Ethiopia. I began painting in primary school. A few years later, …

Alun B

Biography Alun Be, whose real name is Alioune Ba, was born in 1981 in Dakar. He currently lives and works between Paris and Amsterdam. An architect by training and a musician in hi…

Amina Konaté Visintin

Biography A visual artist of Malian origin, Amina Konaté Visintin lives and works in Croatia. Painting represents both her mode of expression and her way of life. An adept of acryl…

Anne Mukuria

Biography Anne Mukuria is Kenyan and comes from a community in which weaving activities supplement the modest incomes drawn from farming. She grew up watching her grandmother weave…

Anokhi

Biography I grew up in India and have been living between South Africa and India for 15 years. I work in international development, particularly on the African continent, on subjec…

Aya N'da

Biography Franco-Ivorian, Aya N'da was born in France and grew up in Côte d'Ivoire. She has been based in Guadeloupe since 2005. Though she has always loved painting and drawing, s…

Baba Ly

Biography Born in 1987 in Thiès (Senegal), Baba Ly grew up in Dakar. He was steeped in art from an early age, since his father — the painter Amadou Dédé Ly — has done his utmost to…

Barbara Okoro

Betty Kandé

Biography Betty Kandé did not attend the Beaux-Arts, but rather studied Law and International Trade in Lille. It was on arriving in France that she began drawing, as there was a pa…

Caszi B

Biography A contemporary painter born in 1982 in Adjamé, Côte d'Ivoire, Casimir Balibié Bationo comes from the Lélé ethnic group of north-western Burkina Faso. He currently lives a…

Charly d’Almeida

Biography Born in Cotonou in 1968 (Benin), Charly D'Almeida began as a self-taught artist before training for four years in the applied-arts studio of a major Beninese painter. A f…

Cooldiabang

Biography Born in Abéné, Casamance, Senegal, in 1972. To his credit, numerous exhibitions, performances, workshops, residencies and concerts… in Senegal, the Gambia, France, Austri…

Doline Legrand Diop

Biography Born in 1980 in Angers and very early drawn to drawing, Doline began her studies at the visual-arts university in Rennes. In the midst of the arrival of new technologies,…

Elodie ND

Biography Didi Borges, also known as Elodie ND, is of French nationality and Cape Verdean origin. She was born and grew up in Aix-en-Provence and has been living in Senegal for 5 y…

Etiyé Dimma Poulsen

Biography Etiyé Dimma Poulsen was born in Ethiopia in the Aroussi province and lived there until the age of six. Her parents then settled in Tanzania and afterwards in Kenya. At th…

Fama Diouf

Biography A professional photographer for ten years, Fama Diouf holds a diploma in network and computer-systems administration as well as a diploma in communications. Fama travelle…

Fatimata Ba

Biography Fatimata Ba is the founder of the Salyel brand. She is French of Senegalese origin. Fatimata does not come from the world of fashion at all and worked for many years in f…

Faty Ly

Biography Faty Ly champions craftsmanship and developed a passion for ceramics in the late 1990s — a passion that took shape with the opening of a craft gallery in 2001 in Dakar wi…

Fred Ebami

Biography Fred Ebami is a graphic designer who has made a name for himself in pop art. For him, this current responds to the desire to know and understand what people feel. Fred Eb…

Girma Berta

Biography Born in 1990, Girma Berta is a self-taught photographer whose work fuses street photography with fine art. He is a self-taught photographer who takes his images with an i…

Godwin Mayaki

Godwin Mayaki is an Abuja-based mixed-media artist whose work braids Nupe textile motifs with abstract painting to interrogate memory, migration, and the architecture of belonging.

Godwin Monday Mayaki

Harouna Ouedraogo

Biography Harouna Ouédraogo was born in 1981 in Burkina Faso. He lives and works between Lyon, Ouagadougou and Santa Fe in the United States. Techniques: painting and drawing. A ch…

Hortense Mbea

Biography Her first career is that of an interpreter, a profession Hortense has practised for 17 years and which remains a true passion. After working in a major international orga…